ATON,
HOSEA BALLOU, M. D., of Rockport, Me., was born in Plymouth, Me.,
March 24th, 1822. "The Glover Memorials and Genealogies," pp.
390, 391, contain this record : "Parker Eaton, Esq., the
father of Dr. H. B. Eaton, was born in Fitchburgh, Mass., in 1786. March
9th, 1807, he was married by Rev. D. Baldwin to Mary Seymour Manson, of
Boston, Mass. She was a descendant in a direct line from Gov. Joseph
Dudley, of Roxbury, Mass. She was born in Boston, in 1788, and died in
Plymouth, Me., in 1848, in the sixty-first year of her age. They removed
to Plymouth in 1821, where Parker Eaton, Esq., still resides." A
filial pen has recorded that they were industrious, honest, and
intelligent Christians, and that, during nearly twenty years, Parker
Eaton filled some office in town or county, such as Sheriff, etc.

Dr. Eaton was educated
at St. Alban's Academy, and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's
Hill. In his boyhood, he became familiar with a book of medicine written
by Dr. Samuel Thompson, and it is probable that to this he owed the
peculiar bent of his mind. In 1845, he graduated at Bondin Allopathic
College, and went to Rockport in Camden, where he took rank as a skilful
practitioner. On the 16th January, 1848, he married Martha White Glover,
daughter of Captain John Glover, of Camden. In 1852, he attended
lectures in the medical schools of Philadelphia and New York, spending
some of his time with Dr. S. S. Fitch, in the study of diseases of the
chest, and with Dr. Ira Warren, whose specialty was diseases of the
throat. Returning to Rockport, he resumed his practice, which he
continued until 1864, when he enlisted in the Army as surgeon.

In 1854-'55, he adopted
the homopathic system, and has continued one of its most zealous
advocates. He has had the charge of the town poor for seventeen years.
This field of labor is in one respect peculiar. Within a radius of three
miles from his office, are extensive lime quarries where large bodies of
men are engaged in blasting rock. Scarcely a week passes in which his
skill is not called into requisition by distressing accidents among the
workmen.

On embracing homopathy,
he was expelled from the Maine Medical Association ; but was, in
1870, elected President of the Maine Homopathic Medical Society, and
Vice-President of the American Institute of Homopathy. His address
delivered before the former society was an able defence of the Hahnemann
school ; it was printed, extensively circulated, and received much
commendation from the Press as pointed, clear and comprehensive. He
relies much upon his skill ; he disregards many rules and
traditions, and his success is the best endorsement of his course. He is
self-educated, self-reliant and enthusiastic.